Reports on the diseases of cattle in the United States made to the Commissioner of Agriculture, with accompanying documents. / Department of Agriculture.

  • United States Department of Agriculture
Date:
1869
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Credit: Reports on the diseases of cattle in the United States made to the Commissioner of Agriculture, with accompanying documents. / Department of Agriculture. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    end of tlie fourth stomach was intensely reddened, and its fohls marked by zigzag-fissures or ulcerations, in the center of which were blaek scabs, with adlierent food. The i)yloric end was of more normal color, but four ulcers, about one-half inch broiul, and of irregular shape, existed in its middle; and at the pyloric end was a larger spot of ulceration, about one inch in length. The duodenum was much congested on its minor surface, and diffuse redness pervaded the mucous membrane of the jejunum and ileum. In various parts of the latter were small, dark petechiai. The mucous membrane of the whole of the large intestine was of a dark red color, and the excrement in the rectum was tinged Avith blood. Through the whole of the longitudinal mucous folds extravasations of blood liad occurred. The liver and gall bladder weighed seventeen and one-half pounds, and appeared healtby. The bile in the gall bladder was thick. The spleen was very dark in color, its pulp soft, and general weight five and one-half pounds. The kidneys were much congested, and the mucous membrane of each pelvis spotted with dark ecchymoses. In the peritoneal cul de sac, around the bladder and rectum, were numerous bright ecchymoses. The bladder was full of bloody urine, and its mucous lining extensively dotted with small blood spots, of a vermilion hue. ^ On seA-ering the head from the neck, a large quantity of serum flowed from the meninges. The meninges were dark, and of the general color of the gray matter of the cord, and the brain was much redder than in health. Observation XX, September 5, 1868.—Three-year-old red-and-white cow; the pro]perty of Dennis Doran, Brighton, near Chicago, This coat had died during the i)receding night, and was dissected at 3 p. m. on the 5th. There was no sign of decomposition, and the internal organs were still warm. The organs of respiration were healthy. Heart and pericardium sound, and free from ecchymoses. g Organs of deglutition and first stomach healthy. Second stomach of a dull red hue in its inner lining. Third stomach normal. Fourth stom- ach of a dark red color at its cardiac end, with various ecchymoses, an'd half a dozen small, circumscribed spots where the eiiithelium had been thrown off', and the dark red vascular membrane exposed. The general color of the lining in the antrum p^'lori, was much less intensely red than in the transverse folds, but was the seat of several erosions. The pyloric gland had a zigzag ulcer on its summit. The small intestine was the seat of ramified redness. In the large intestine the longitudinal mucous folds were all reddened along their free mnrgins, b^'^ blood extravasation. The liver was sound, but the gall bladder thickened by serous infiltra-